Neoplatonic philosophy

Nearest the door at the back of the church, in the first panel, she lectured on Neoplatonic philosophy to her pupils.

She wrote extensively on the occult or Neoplatonic philosophies of the Renaissance.

His account of the supralunary world combines elements from Neoplatonic philosophy and Christian theology.

He is best known for his works on Plotinus and neoplatonic philosophy, and on Christian mysticism.

With the latter, he continued the same research as his predecessor A. H. Armstrong in the field of Neoplatonic philosophy.

Alan's philosophy was a sort of mixture of Aristotelian logic and Neoplatonic philosophy.

The work of Neoplatonic philosophy involved describing the derivation of the whole of reality from a single principle, "the One".

Neoplatonic philosophy maintained that there could be affinities between living and non-living objects that could cause one to resemble the other.

No one has ever imagined that the Bible was unimportant to them, but other sources of inspiration, particularly Platonic or Neoplatonic philosophy, have also seemed obvious.

The Emperor Julian (332-363), embraced Neoplatonic philosophy and worked to replace Christianity with a version of Neoplatonic paganism.

Nabbes's play anticipated the heroic drama to come during the Restoration, though the heroic play "lacks both Nabbes's formal restraint and his Neoplatonic philosophy."

John M. Dillon and Lloyd P. Gerson, Neoplatonic Philosophy: Introductory Readings, Hackett, 2004.

"The Egyptian Book of the Dead and Neoplatonic Philosophy," History of Platonism, Plato Redivivus, eds.

Alfred the Great wrote a wisdom poem over the course of his reign based loosely on the neoplatonic philosophy of Boethius called the Lays of Boethius.

On the other hand, we know that Ammonius believed in the bright Gods, Protectors, and that the Neoplatonic Philosophy was as "pagan" as it was mystical.

Inspired by a penchant for Neoplatonic philosophy, Soul's Flight takes the reader on a metaphysical journey with poetry being a vehicle for expressing family folklore of a mother's death.

In the Neoplatonic philosophy of Henry More (1614-1687), for instance, Semele was thought to embody "intellectual imagination", and was construed as the opposite of Arachne, "sense perception".

The stripes are a diagrammatic cut of the spheres in neoplatonic philosophy, while the five-pointed star embodies the golden ratio, phi, as a symbol of temperance and a life of moderation.

Perl, Eric D. Theophany: The Neoplatonic Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite, (Albany: SUNY Press, 2007).

At the head of this movement for renewal in Rome was Cardinal Bessarion, whose house from the mid-century was the centre of a flourishing academy of Neoplatonic philosophy and a varied intellectual culture.

Demonstrating that this wisdom tradition was associated with Christianity, with links via Moses and the Zoroastrian Magi, Ficino was able to reconcile Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy with Christian theology.

He retained his Neoplatonic philosophy after becoming Christian, and in Liber de generatione divini Verbi, he states that God is above being, and thus it can even be said that He is not.

Lossky also expressed in The Mystical Theology of the Eastern Church that the Trinity is a doctrine with its technical terms rooted in Hebrew hermeneutics, Greek Platonic and Neoplatonic philosophy as well.

Porphyry's Launching-points to the realm of mind : an introduction to the neoplatonic philosophy of Plotinus translated from the Greek by Kenneth Sylvan Guthrie ; with an introduction by Michael Hornum.

De Stijl movement was influenced by Cubist painting as well as by the mysticism and the ideas about "ideal" geometric forms (such as the "perfect straight line") in the neoplatonic philosophy of mathematician M.H.J. Schoenmaekers.